Agelong

Tifftiff today, kissykissy tonay and agelong pine tomauran-na. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It derives too from the fact that Scripture comes to the hearer as an inseparable part of the total life and wit­ness of the Christian church, and so carries with it the authority of the church's agelong experi­ence and testimony. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)

So we answer to the infernal, agelong and eternal order issued from on high. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some agelong string had been pulled within her, or she was infected by the emotion of one whom she had always admired and loved, and whom she had hardly ever seen stirred to eloquence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The yellow, blinkless eyes, with knife-edge pupils, flashed with the hate of agelong feud as I edged against the wall. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It was the sound of the agora, the wineshop, the gymnasium, the forum; agelong leitmotif of the lands by the Middle Sea. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

The determinist will speak slightingly of the “sub - jective character” of personal experience and its ex - pressions, the libertarian of the “abstract and diagram - matic character” of causality-constructions; while the agnostic will cite the agelong inconclusiveness of the debate between the two other parties, and the inade - quacy of language as such to the nature of things. ❋ AUSTIN FARRER (1968)

There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea, such as Beren fought in the Mountains of Terror in Doriath, and so came to Lúthien upon the green sward amid the hemlocks in the moonlight long ago. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

To Merry the ascent seemed agelong, a meaningless journey in a hateful dream, going on and on to some dim ending that memory cannot seize. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

The ludicrous result marks the impropriety of bestowing the agelong duration of marble upon small, characteristic individualities, such as might come within the province of waxen imagery. ❋ Various (N/A)

Only once did Brant look back at the crouching monster, whose agelong vigil was now drawing to its close. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1950)

In this the modern European is the heir of an agelong tradition. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)

One of the big failures in human history has been the agelong attempt to stop women painting their faces. ❋ Unknown (1944)

Jurgis, who knew nothing about the agelong and everlasting hypocrisy of woman, would take the bait and grin with delight; and then he would hold his finger in front of little Antanas 'eyes, and move it this way and that, and laugh with glee to see the baby follow it. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

With the first drink he could eat a meal, and he could persuade himself that that was economy; with the second he could eat another meal -- but there would come a time when he could eat no more, and then to pay for a drink was an unthinkable extravagance, a defiance of the agelong instincts of his hunger-haunted class. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

No wonder then that, with this agelong suppression (necessary in a sense though it may have been) which marks the Christian dispensation, there should have been associated endless Sickness and Crime and sordid Poverty, the Crucifixion of animals in the name of Science and of human workers in the name of Wealth, and wars and horrors innumerable! ❋ Unknown (1920)

The particular medicine-man may fail; that does not so much matter; he is only the individual representative of the glorified and composite being who exists in the mind of the tribe (just as a present-day King may be unworthy, but is surrounded all the same by the agelong glamour of Royalty). ❋ Unknown (1920)

In his own spirit is enacted the agelong world-drama of toil. ❋ Carleton Eldredge Noyes (1911)

You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity. ❋ James Joyce (1911)